La Marsnowlaise
To shovels, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let’s salt, let’s sand!
May a bag of ice melter
be somewhere in stock!
A slightly rewritten La Marseillaise, to fit the current situation.
France’s second city of Marseille was paralysed Wednesday by a freak snowstorm, stunning locals accustomed to balmy Mediterranean winters, and causing havoc for road and air traffic.
Some 550 drivers were stranded for hours on highways outside the port city, emergency services said, as snow fell through the morning to form a coat 12 centimetres (five inches) thick for the first time in 20 years.
Current temperature in Paris, 29 F, heading for 21 F overnight. Currently a balmy 32 F in Marseilles, heading for an overnight low of 30 F. Temperatures there are expected to stay in the 40s through the week during the day.
For the United States, ice, snow and assorted nastiness continued across the northern tier of the country from coast to coast. If you’re currently in the clear, just wait a day or two for the next wave to come across. A really, really cold blast of air is expected to hit the eastern 2/3 of the country in the next few days.
We simply can’t wait for that to head over to France.
Environment | Gaius January 7, 2009
By curtis kreutzberg, January 7, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
This will be the first time in human history that global cooling has been a net benefit for the human race.I hope it gets coldest where the AGW believers live.
By Mockingbird, January 8, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
I feel bad for those French. Maybe they would go for some fries about now.